Moonless and crowblack
David Donohoe
David Donohoe
A collection of 6 tracks by David Donohoe, remixed/remade on and from Thread pulls' Fluorescent 3 and released on Ninepoint records on 21 Jun 2007 (summer solstice). These are described by Donohoe as futile attempts, where failure is an inherent part of the process. 'LUNAR ECLIPSE, 6 ATTEMPTS, 3 MARCH 2007', 6 photographs by Peter Maybury form part of the artwork for Moonless and crowblack. 6 anagrams from the word Fluorescent: fencer lotus; scent of lure; restful once; uncle softer; net for clues; fluster cone are devised as track titles. 1974. King Crimson reproduce an element from Tom Phillips A Humument, a 'treated novel' created over William Hurrell Mallock's 1892 novel A Human Document, in which elements of the page are isolated, drawn-over, drawn-on etc., on the cover of Starless and Bible Black, the title of which is a quotation from the poet Dylan Thomas' play, Under Milk Wood. (see links above) The words 'Moonless' and 'crowblack' are extracted from the same passage "It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.", as an oblique reference to "This night wounds time" while also quoting the classic King Crimson album giving the David Donohoe album it's title. The press photograph of David Donohoe is made in reference to the cover of the 1977 album Feels good to me by Bruford, a renowned exponent of the Simmons Drum Synth (although not on that album). A hexagon, the shape of a Simmons drum pad is tilted 15ยบ clockwise, recalling the hand-drawn box on the disk of Thread pulls Fluorescent 3 by Garrett Phelan. The shape is at once a vessel and a void. In the making of 'Moonless and crowblack' David Donohoe played and used: sampler, Simmons SDS 8, Trident, M-tron, Oddity, piano. 2006 / 2007.
09.11.2010 |
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2007.
Ninepoint Records.
CDR.
9.9
Ninepoint Records.
CDR.
9.9
Limited edition CD-R with custom packaging [ playing time: 44'15" ]
'Moonless and crowblack' as the name suggests, is an album-length 'remix/remake' project: 6 tracks made on and from Fluorescent 3 by the band Thread pulls by David Donohoe.
This release is a multiple of 50 numbered copies. Each disk is packaged in a custom made cardboard sleeve and accompanied by 2 large-format offset-lithographic prints by Peter Maybury, printed on 150gsm Munken Print white v15. Design concept: Peter Maybury. Assembled in Dublin.
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